Different people taking the same drug can have markedly different responses to the same dose. While many people will get the intended effects, some may get little to no benefit, and others may get unwanted side effects.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has added another coronavirus variant to its list to monitor. It's called the mu variant and has been designated a variant of interest (VOI). What this means is that mu has genetic differences ...
Sep 3, 2021
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Scientists in Cancer Sciences have published findings of their research into how two important antibody drugs work and why they sometimes fail in some patients.
Aug 2, 2021
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Researchers have identified a rare class of genetic differences transmitted from parents without autism to their affected children with autism and determined that they are most prominent in "multiplex" families with more ...
Jul 26, 2021
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A new USC study of a common, yet poorly understood type of white blood cell reveals the immune cell's response to pathogens differs greatly by sex and by age.
Jul 19, 2021
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A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. and several other countries, working with Regeneron Genetics Center, has isolated several gene variants that play a role in body weight control. ...
A new combination of drugs that may have the potential to treat a type of leukemia has been uncovered by a detailed molecular examination of leukemia cells by RIKEN researchers1.
Jun 28, 2021
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The prevalence of genetic mutations associated with breast cancer in Black and white women is the same, according to a new JAMA Oncology study of nearly 30,000 patients led by researchers in the Basser Center for BRCA at ...
Jun 14, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Simon Fraser University and Genomics PLC, has conducted a genome-wide association study using the 2020 UK Biobank data release, using almost triple the discovery sample ...
Black individuals have higher rates of hypertension compared to Americans of European or Hispanic ancestry. Yet the contributions of genetic ancestry to this ethnic disparity in hypertension risk are not well known.
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